Transamerica
Right in the midst of important changes in her life, pre-operative male-to-female Bree Osborne (Felicity Huffman) learns that 17 years ago, she fathered a son, Toby (Kevin Zegers), now a teenage runaway hustling on the streets of New York.
2 September 1947, Ypsilanti, Michigan, USA
19 January 1942, Emporia, Virginia, USA
19 September 1984, Woodstock, Ontario, Canada
10 December 1941, Dublin, Ireland
3 January 1984, Des Moines, Iowa, USA
23 September 1959, Elizabeth, New Jersey, USA
21 June 1967, Macon, Georgia, USA
20 February 1971, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
9 December 1962, Bedford, New York, USA
30 April 1940, New York City, New York, USA
14 November 1989, Nyack, New York, USA
March 01, 2007
A well-tuned vehicle.
August 05, 2007
Comfort food for a comfortable audience, with the TV-familiar Huffman reassuring viewers that she's really a real woman underneath that unflattering make-up.
January 20, 2006
Huffman's performance in Transamerica, as a pre-op male-to-female transsexual coping with the sudden emergence of a long-lost son, is much better than the movie it's in; indeed, she singlehandedly takes Transamerica to a higher plane.
August 10, 2007
Tucker's screenplay is sharp but also sensitive, so the ample good humour never drifts into high camp (apart from the scenes with Bree's mother - and SHE is straight).
January 20, 2006
It's a farce with heart, a meditation on identity, family and gender politics that has real faith in its characters -- even when the characters themselves lack it.
February 02, 2006
Huffman's performance redeems parts of the movie but, until the final 30 minutes, Transamerica too often feels like a journey to nowhere.
July 10, 2007
A big part of the movie's success is Huffman's irresistible and remarkable performance as Bree, a character we identify with rather than feel alienated by.
January 27, 2006
Transamerica is a routine road-trip comedy-drama with a twist.
January 20, 2006
As Bree, who started her unhappy life as Stanley, the angular Huffman, a fine comedic actress who carried home an Emmy this fall, is a compelling portrait of wounded dignity. She is wholly fascinating and heartbreaking.
February 02, 2006
It's funny in spots, touching in others and uniformly life-affirming.
